An upstate New York ninth-grade student who was arrested Wednesday for allegedly slamming a younger student has reportedly suggested race was a factor in the school’s decision to suspend him.
A video that was shared widely on social media appears to show the ninth-grader picking up and hurling a much smaller boy to the ground. The incident occurred Monday at Ada Cosgrove Middle School in Ogden, New York, during dismissal, WHAM reported.
Video recorded outside Cosgrove Middle School in Ogden, N.Y. captured a much larger student picking up a young child and throwing him to the concrete ground. The victim's family filed a police report on Tuesday morning. The bully has not been charged yet. pic.twitter.com/04WrfVad1h
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On Thursday, Andy Ngo reported in the Post Millennial that the student accused of the assault…